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i'll talk to senator john mccain in a minute. >>> in new york city, president obama meets with storm survivors where more than 25,000 households are still without power. more than two weeks after super storm sandy hit. >>> we begin with the big story. the latest on the benghazi hearings. joining me is pentagon correspondent barbara starr and intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly. welcome to you both. barbara, this is really fascinating me. so general petraeus who has been at the center of this huge scandal tomorrow morning will testify at a congressional hearing about benghazi, and your information from a very good source, i think is really, really significant. it's basically, i have been listening to you for the last couple of hours, petraeus basically says he knew the moment this happened that it was a group called answar al sharia and that after that there was a stream of other intelligence saying it may be linked to the video we all knew about but his belief was always that it was this group and they had to rule out the other intelligence before they could officially confirm i
i'll talk to senator john mccain in a minute. >>> in new york city, president obama meets with storm survivors where more than 25,000 households are still without power. more than two weeks after super storm sandy hit. >>> we begin with the big story. the latest on the benghazi hearings. joining me is pentagon correspondent barbara starr and intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly. welcome to you both. barbara, this is really fascinating me. so general petraeus who has been...
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i appreciate it. >>> joining me now, senator john mccain, ranking member of the armed services committee. senator, welcome to you. >> thank you, piers. >> this news has been breaking that some senators have had a briefing this afternoon in which they have seen closed circuit television footage from the night the ambassador was killed in benghazi. i know you haven't seen that yourself yet. but from what they are saying, the people who have come out of there, it would appear two things have been established now for further debate. one is that there was an alarming gap between the death of the ambassador and further deaths over numerous hours, and secondly, there is no evidence apparently on this video of any kind of protest going on, which would lend succor to your argument that's always been from the start that this was a much more preplanned operation. what is your reaction to this? >> well, my reaction is that i think it's been very clear now for quite a long time that there was no demonstration and that of course was the key element in what ambassador rice was saying and what the presi
i appreciate it. >>> joining me now, senator john mccain, ranking member of the armed services committee. senator, welcome to you. >> thank you, piers. >> this news has been breaking that some senators have had a briefing this afternoon in which they have seen closed circuit television footage from the night the ambassador was killed in benghazi. i know you haven't seen that yourself yet. but from what they are saying, the people who have come out of there, it would appear...
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mccain and asked about something that we're hearing from democrats, which is john mccain is calling for more information to congress, but he had a press conference yesterday instead of going to a closed briefing where administration officials were giving more information. well, ted barrett asked john mccain about that, and it was apparently an intense very angry exchange and mccain simply would not comment on it at all. >> so this is just getting uglier and uglier, at least more passionate, shall we say, dana bash. >> absolutely. >> thanks so much. >>> the gop republicans struggling with its party identity after losing the presidential election last tuesday and it's not just pundits trying to figure out why the republicans lost. here's former republican nominee mitt romney giving his explanation for the election result. >> what the president's campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote. >> but those comments aren't sitting so well with some top
mccain and asked about something that we're hearing from democrats, which is john mccain is calling for more information to congress, but he had a press conference yesterday instead of going to a closed briefing where administration officials were giving more information. well, ted barrett asked john mccain about that, and it was apparently an intense very angry exchange and mccain simply would not comment on it at all. >> so this is just getting uglier and uglier, at least more...
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and, yes, it is true that john mccain and others are going after this saying they want questions. but there's a lot of politics going on on both sides of this. >> if he decides to go ahead and nominate susan rice to be the next secretary of state, dana, what are the chances that she will be confirmed by the united states senate? >> i think it's actually too early to answer that question, honestly. clearly the democrats do have a substantial majority, but not a 60-vote majority needed to break a filibuster. they would need at least a handful of republicans to vote with them to confirm susan rice if she is in fact nominated to be secretary of state. and given the way that this has become so politically polarized led by the president's former opponent john mccain, it is too early to tell whether or not that would actually happen. but jessica mentioned this on the air before, you got to wonder whether or not even if the president wasn't planning on nominating susan rice before whether he just wants to do it now to show he's not going to back down to these two republican men john mccai
and, yes, it is true that john mccain and others are going after this saying they want questions. but there's a lot of politics going on on both sides of this. >> if he decides to go ahead and nominate susan rice to be the next secretary of state, dana, what are the chances that she will be confirmed by the united states senate? >> i think it's actually too early to answer that question, honestly. clearly the democrats do have a substantial majority, but not a 60-vote majority...
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i want to get your sense of it, but i want to tell you what john mccain said right before his meeting today. here it is. >> my focus is on four dead americans, all of them brave, unnecessarily, and what is clearly of all the earmarks of a cover-up. >> was there a cover-up? >> well, erin, there is still an awful lot of questions to be answered. of course, there's an investigation being undertaken now by admiral mullen, former head of our joint chiefs of staff, as well. and when that process plays out, we're going to have a lot more answers to questions about what happened. the key thing right now, though, i think -- and i think senator mccain would agree with this, we need to make sure we do everything possible to bring to justice those who committed these acts that led to the death of four americans. that's the most important thing right now, in addition to making sure that every embassy, every consulate, every -- every installation where we have our diplomats who are very brave americans on the ground doing important work that we do everything we can to secure them. but i think that
i want to get your sense of it, but i want to tell you what john mccain said right before his meeting today. here it is. >> my focus is on four dead americans, all of them brave, unnecessarily, and what is clearly of all the earmarks of a cover-up. >> was there a cover-up? >> well, erin, there is still an awful lot of questions to be answered. of course, there's an investigation being undertaken now by admiral mullen, former head of our joint chiefs of staff, as well. and when...
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you're about to hear a tape of senator john mccain's contentious exchange with cnn. also, we've seen pictures like this of the benghazi compound on september 11th, but today for the first time lawmakers are seeing surveillance video of the assault that killed the united states ambassador, three other americans. i'll talk to one u.s. senator about what that video shows. and mitt romney's speaking out about his election loss blaming what he calls gifts -- that's a quote, gifts, the president people gave to people who voted for him. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> tempers flaring on capitol hill. senator john mccain lashing out at one of our cnn producers who questioned why he was missing a key hearing on the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya. mccain has been a sharp critic of the president and his administration complaining lawmakers are not getting enough information. and when asked why he missed that meeting today, he lashed out. our senior congressional correspondent dana bash is up on capitol hill. she's got more on this sensitiv
you're about to hear a tape of senator john mccain's contentious exchange with cnn. also, we've seen pictures like this of the benghazi compound on september 11th, but today for the first time lawmakers are seeing surveillance video of the assault that killed the united states ambassador, three other americans. i'll talk to one u.s. senator about what that video shows. and mitt romney's speaking out about his election loss blaming what he calls gifts -- that's a quote, gifts, the president...
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he didn't get as many -- romney did not get as many conservatives out as john mccain did. so that's a problem. i wouldn't read more than that into it. and all -- this is all the chattering classes. i never talked to one voter out there who said how should the polls be weighted or anything like that. but we're right. no president's ever won in this kind of economy with this level of unemployment, with this nonrecovery, this much debt, there's just a lot of fundamentals that seemed irrational that this incumbent other than being an incumbent would -- could succeed. >> but there were plenty -- i'll bring donna into this conversation. there are plenty of pundits out there, carl rove not necessarily a pundit but he plays one let's say on tv. he's a serious political analyst. dick morris, certainly others who were predicting -- who were insisting that a lot of these polls overweighed, donna, the democrats who were in the polls as opposed to the republicans and that's why they suggested these so-called mainstream polls were incorrect. turned out to be the weight of the democrats
he didn't get as many -- romney did not get as many conservatives out as john mccain did. so that's a problem. i wouldn't read more than that into it. and all -- this is all the chattering classes. i never talked to one voter out there who said how should the polls be weighted or anything like that. but we're right. no president's ever won in this kind of economy with this level of unemployment, with this nonrecovery, this much debt, there's just a lot of fundamentals that seemed irrational...